A luxury Brooklyn high-rise was pelted with illegal fireworks July 4 \u2014 damaging its windows, showering onlookers with sparks and sending rooftop party-goers fleeing, fuming tenants told The Post.<\/p>\n
No one was seriously hurt as the rogue pyrotechnics were launched at the tony apartment tower from the street, but residents in the trendy Bushwick neighborhood said they missed their coveted local skyline views during the spectacular Macy\u2019s 4th of July Fireworks show \u2014 to run for cover to avoid getting hit with the stray blasts.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fireworks were pelting the windows \u2014 it sounded like hail,\u201d resident Eric Dolny told The Post.<\/p>\n
A luxury Brooklyn high-rise was pelted with illegal fireworks July 4 \u2014 damaging its windows, showering onlookers with sparks and sending rooftop party-goers fleeing, fuming tenants told The Post. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fireworks were pelting the windows \u2014 it sounded like hail,\u201d one resident told The Post. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
He said the rockets were launched just after sundown directly in front of the swanky, 18-story, newly built Cedar Tower, where one-bedrooms run about $3,500 a month.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was definitely jarring,\u201d the 34-year-old said. \u201cThey were bursting in front of our window.\u201d<\/p>\n
A 28-year-old software engineer said she was directly struck by a burst while hosting about a dozen friends in her 12th-floor apartment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI got hit in the chest,\u201d said the woman, who declined to give her name, adding that some fireworks sparks landed on others at the July Fourth fete, too.<\/p>\n
Illegal fireworks rain on Brooklynites near the Central Avenue M train station. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
Spent fireworks remain on the ground outside a luxury Brooklyn high-rise targeted by rogues on Saturday. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
\u201cI was trying to film the fireworks from my balcony, so maybe that was my fault, but I was standing near the entrance to my balcony door,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The projectiles began at about 9:15 p.m. and continued for about 30 minutes, launched by two men right outside the apartment building, witnesses told The Post.<\/p>\n
The building, erected in 2023, is one of the tallest structures in the hip neighborhood, standing on a block of otherwise two- and three-story structures.<\/p>\n
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\u201cFireworks were hitting every floor of this new building, and there were people on the roof that had to run away,\u201d an onlooker wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
Dolny\u2019s girlfriend said, \u201cIt actually looks like [the fireworks] might have scratched up our windows.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was definitely dangerous and could have hurt people who were out on their balconies or could have potentially caused a fire.\u201d<\/p>\n
The residential building in Bushwick (pictured) was hit with local fireworks for the 4th of July celebrations. Gregory P. Mango for NY Post<\/p>\n
The hurt software engineer\u2019s roommate, who is 30 and also a software engineer, said, \u201cAt one point, our friends told them, \u2018Stop! We\u2019re up here!\u201d \u2014 to no avail.<\/p>\n
The disturbing situation occurred as Illegal-fireworks complaints in the Big Apple have sharply decreased year-over-year to date, from 3,136 calls in 2025 to 2,257 this year.<\/p>\n
In the same zip code for Cedar Tower, there were 43 complaints in 2025 compared to 21 complaints for the same period this year.<\/p>\n
Someone seems to launch fireworks striking the high rise building Cedar Tower, at 60 Cedar Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn on July 4, 2026. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
Fireworks are launched from the ground, striking Cedar Tower in Bushwick. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n
At the same time, summonses issued for illicit explosives on July 4 are up 59% citywide, from 32 in 2025 to 51 in 2026.<\/p>\n
The city\u2019s Department of Buildings told The Post it has not received any complaints about fireworks-related damage at the site.<\/p>\n
Tenants told The Post the explosive episode should serve as a wake-up call to further enforcement efforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cSome of my friends were really scared,\u201d said a 54-year-old beauty company employee, who called on both NYPD and the building\u2019s management to investigate the problem.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fireworks were very close,\u201d she said. \u201d It was too much.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A luxury Brooklyn high-rise was pelted with illegal fireworks July 4 \u2014 damaging its windows, showering onlookers with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288304,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[98,9449,8406,40550,57,9,197,56,63,65,64,58],"class_list":["post-288303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-brooklyn","tag-bushwick","tag-fireworks","tag-fourth-of-july","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city-life","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}